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LAN & WAN News

Cisco today announced new switch, VPN router and NAS cloud storage small business products.

The 200 Series Smart Switch family includes models with 24 and 48 10/100 ports or 18, 26, or 50 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports. Power over Ethernet is available on up to 48 10/100 ports and 50 10/100/1000 ports.

Other features of the "entry level" smart switches include QoS, 802.1X port authentication, IPv4 and v6 support and power saving features.

The 200 Series switches are available now with street pricing around $180 for the SF 200-24 24-Port 10/100 Smart Switch (SLM224GT) through $950 for the SG 200-50P 50-port Gigabit PoE Smart Switch (SLM2048PT).

The built-in dual-band 802.11n access point has one internal and two upgradeable (RP-SMA) external antennas that supports up to 64 simultaneous clients with four SSIDs and SSID to VLAN mapping. WDS bridging and repeating is also supported.